What started out as a promising partnership destined for unparalleled success has now become the laughingstock of Formula 1. That’s right, the Charles Leclerc x Ferrari nightmare has yet another chapter added to it at the 2023 Belgian Grand Prix sprint race. This time, however, a distraught Leclerc decided to give the silent treatment to his team. But as soon as the visor was off, he promptly assigned the blame.

Leclerc finished a respectable 5th during the Sprint Race today. But given what transpired on track and in the pits for the 25-year-old Monegasque, something bigger was probably on the cards. And this is exactly why he decided to lash out at his team in the media pen. And so, this unfortunate saga continues.

Charles Leclerc blames Sainz prioritizing

Leclerc’s teammate, Carlos Sainz began and finished the sprint race ahead of his Scuderia teammate. And this is exactly what led to his miseries according to Leclerc. After giving the silent treatment to his engineer, Xavi, over the radio, he ranted later to the media.

The Monegasque racing ace was quoted as saying, “Unfortunately yes. since Carlos [Sainz] was in front he had priority, I was a passenger of that. I had to do a lap on extreme’s [wets] and it was not the optimal tire in that moment.”

To make it even worse, he suffered from an agonizingly slow pitstop that added to his misery. “Then we had a problem at the pits which I don’t know yet what it was,” concluded Leclerc.

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While his pit strategy was ill-fated through no one’s fault, Leclerc has lashed out against the team for failing miserably in other departments.

Leclerc lashes out at Ferrari

While Leclerc’s race was a tad bit compromised by being left out on an unsuitable tire for an entire lap around the massive Spa-Francorchamps circuit, what ensued later in the pitlane was a mess of Ferrari’s own making.

Leclerc continued, “That made us lose 2-3 positions… yeah it was not a sprint where we maximized everything, we need to work on that. Because when we don’t have the pace to do great things, we need to optimize.”

Can Charles Leclerc salvage his weekend during tomorrow’s Belgian GP starting from pole?

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